Central Region Critical Care Education Coordinator

Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora – Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District

Location: Central Region

Service: Allied Professions Critical Care

Contract:  Fixed term to 30 June 2025; Part Time 0.8 FTE

Salary: As per PSA AHST Collective Agreement, Bands A2 – C2

Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role

The Critical Care Expansion Programme has committed funding to support and increase Allied Professions workforce capacity and capability within critical care settings by funding Educators for Allied Professions within the Central Region. 

This role will provide coordination of the education programme across the Central Region but will be based at Wellington Regional Hospital.  They will be the leader and glue to coordinate and support the educators to develop skills and knowledge frameworks for the Allied Professions roles that work in ICU/HDU or provide care for patients when transferred back to their home District.   This role will also connect and network with the National Coordinator role to ensure consistency (with local flavour) of these roles and the education programmes across Te Whatu Ora. This is a fixed term role to 30 June 2025.

Mō tō mātou rōpū – About our team

This is a new team that will be both part of allied professions clinically, but also liaise closely with both the nursing educator roles and the regional profession specific staff working in critical care. The coordinator role will be intrinsic to establishing the culture and work ethic of the team, and the networking and partnering with the nursing educator roles and team leaders for each profession. The AP educator team will work across the Central region, they may be based at any of the 6 hospital sites, but expected to work across all clinicians within those professions working in critical care, and alongside the other allied professions, nurses and medical teams working in this service within the Central regions hospitals.

Moū – About you 

You will be a highly skilled clinician holding an Allied Professions Annual practicing certificate, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience with knowledge of working in critical care. You will be someone who values evidence based practice and also leadership by example. You will be cognizant of the importance of equity for patients, whanau and for your team. You will not hold a specific clinical caseload, but may work alongside other allied profession clinicians/educators from a clinical coaching/mentoring perspective. You will have proven coordination and quality improvement skills and outstanding communication with a solid understanding of clinical education.

E pā ana ki a tatou – About us

Within the Central Region, patient care is provided at six major hospitals: Wellington Regional Hospital, Hutt Hospital, Wairarapa Hospital, Palmerston North Regional Hospital, Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers Memorial Hospital and Whanganui Hospital.  Almost all tertiary services, including intensive care services, are provided by Wellington Regional Hospital; Hutt Hospital provides the regional plastic surgery service.

Here in the Te Whatu Ora Central Region we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability and religions. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.

The Central Region Districts are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

To find out more about us click on the following links:

Capital and Coast - Wairarapa - MidCentral - Hawkes Bay - Whanganui - Hutt Valley

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply

Click the apply now button to send your application directly to us. For further information on this role please email Philip.adamson@tewhatuora.govt.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number in the subject line.

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai

By joining together we will succeed